The research and development of modern metallic materials goes hand in hand with increasing their lifetime via optimized deformation processing. The presented work deals with preparation of an Al/Cu clad composite with implemented reinforcing Cu wires by the method of twist channel angular pressing (TCAP). Single and double pass extrusion of the clad composite was simulated numerically and carried out experimentally. This work is unique as no such study has been presented so far. Detailed monitoring of the deformation behavior during both the passes was enabled by superimposed grids and sensors. Both the sets of results revealed that already the single pass imparted significant effective strain (higher than e.g., conventional equal channel angular pressing (ECAP)), especially to the Al matrix, and resulted in notable deformation strengthening of both the Al and Cu composite components, which was confirmed by the increased punch load and decreased plastic flow velocity (second pass compared to first pass). Processing via the second pass also resulted in homogenization of the imposed strain and residual stress across the composite cross-section. However, the investigated parameters featured slight variations in dependence on the monitored location across the cross-section.

Faculty of Materials Science and Technology VŠB Technical University of Ostrava 70800 Ostrava Czech Republic

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